1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh These are some of our favorite segments 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment 4 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:22,799 Speaker 1: last stravaganza. Uh So, without further ado, here is the 5 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. We are trying to take a sample of 6 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: what people are thinking and talking about right now at 7 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: the moment, and the way we like to open up 8 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: is by asking our guests, what is a myth? What 9 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 1: is something that people believe to be true that you 10 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: know to be false. I think, and this was coming 11 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: up in the conversation of the story that I was 12 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: telling you in class, I think there's a myth when 13 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: that people who are a racist, or people from any 14 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: specific group that you may not agree with, that their 15 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: intentions are bad or that they're coming from a bad place. 16 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: I try to like a step back on a lot 17 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: of issues and try to like observe it, you know, 18 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: from a more disassociative like less bias, try to be 19 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: more objective. I think when people are stereotyping other races 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: and stuff, they're not coming necessarily from a bad place. 21 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: Even if the result is bad, they just don't know 22 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,839 Speaker 1: enough and they just keep strengthening that point of view, 23 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 1: and it's to enhance their sense of well being. It's 24 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:32,199 Speaker 1: a terrible aftermath. Um, But I don't think they're coming 25 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: in from I want to hurt this person or this 26 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: person is bad. This is coming in. Oh, this is 27 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:41,199 Speaker 1: my group, and my group will always reign supream exactly. 28 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna pose all other teams. And you could 29 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: brute this in football, uh, college basketball, Like you see 30 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: the same thing and it almost doesn't Yeah, and it 31 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Like you could watch the same trial, whether 32 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: let's bring up O J or whatever, and people are 33 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: going to see the same accused, the same evidence, and 34 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: we'll have two dramatically different points of view on it. Uh. 35 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: And that point of view is aligning also with their 36 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 1: group that they identify with. We're pro this or we're 37 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: pro this, or we're anti that and we're anti that, 38 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: even though the source of information that people that two 39 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: groups are witnessing or the same. Yeah. Uh. An interesting 40 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 1: example of this, there's this article in The Atlantic called 41 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: The Last Temptation that's by an evangelical Christian about him 42 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: seeing his you know, religion basically get tribalized to the 43 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 1: point that they now are all fully pro Trump, even 44 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: though taking a step back, that seems like the very 45 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: last thing you would expect Evangelical Christians to be into. 46 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: But exactly like you're saying, because they sort of lumped 47 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: themselves into this group. And also, you know, I would 48 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: also say to add to that um even though you know, 49 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 1: there are some places where I think most of our 50 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: listeners would agree, you know, that group is clearly wrong. 51 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: That group has also faced a lot of just very dismissive, 52 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: like culturally, you know, shitty treatment from mainstream culture. So uh, 53 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 1: every time they're treated like shit or dismissed or called 54 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: rednecks or whatever. Uh, that adds to that sort of division. 55 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: And I think you're right like kind of viewing things 56 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: as Okay, it's our tribe versus there's it really doesn't 57 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: a lot of histories of their tribe versus our tribe, right, 58 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: but it's you know, the fact it's it explains some 59 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: of the things that you would think would be contradictory, 60 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: like the fact that Evangelicals new you know figurehead is 61 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Yeah. I think when it when it becomes 62 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: more severe, and that's when it starts getting to raise 63 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: some stuff. I think in the future the same way 64 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: that ASPERG is a spectrum. Uh, I think racism will 65 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: be become a spectrum in the sense that, as far 66 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: as mental health is concerned, when people have extreme categoryations 67 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: in their head to the point of absurdity, that's when 68 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: it's a mental health issue. I don't I mean, I'm 69 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: not saying this is signs or anything like that, but 70 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: when the racism is so strong it then becomes a 71 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 1: mental health issue. Is like their brain cannot stop or 72 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: no one to stop stereotyping to the point where they're 73 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: just constantly categorizing, making it black and white, and then 74 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: just dispelling hatred. That's when it's like, oh, your brain 75 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 1: is not operating at a normal level and you're just 76 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 1: categorizing everything to the point where yeah, exactly, and then 77 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: it's like, oh no, no, there's something more there. You 78 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: just don't know when to stop. And the reason I 79 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: asked about the age of the women who you were 80 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: talking about stereotyping earlier is just I read a statistic 81 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: over the weekend. I've read a couple of statistics lately 82 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: that made me kind of surprised at how focused the 83 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: things we talked about. When we talk about you know, uh, 84 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:12,919 Speaker 1: you know, Trump supporters being racist and all that stuff. 85 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: How concentrated those points of view are in like the 86 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:23,479 Speaker 1: baby Boomer generation, And you know, I think it it 87 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: seems like, based on some of these reports and statistics 88 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:32,119 Speaker 1: that all link to on our footnotes, uh footnotes, that 89 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: we we have a lot of older people who are 90 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: you know, putting the stuff front and center, and then 91 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 1: there's like some very visible younger people who go around 92 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: marching with tiki torches, and we look at them and 93 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: were like, well, it must be all ages, and it's 94 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: actually very concentrated the elderly. Yeah, And I think that's 95 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: an important distinction because that also goes up with their 96 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: upbringing and also what they were supposed to when they 97 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: were younger. The baby boomers, they're gonna give me ship 98 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: such a mess. Betsy, as we're pronouncing it. She had 99 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: a hell of a week, she had so last night 100 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: she went on sixty minutes and had some very I 101 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: don't know, unimpressive answers to questions about her, like the 102 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: very core tenants of her tenure as the head of 103 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: the Department of Education mean just being an evil, out 104 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 1: of touch person. Well, yeah, but like her main thing 105 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: is this idea that okay, if you you know, have 106 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: these charter schools and you know, uh, that public schools 107 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: will be forced to compete with them and it will 108 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:52,919 Speaker 1: bring up there the performance of all the schools in uh, 109 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: you know, an area, run it like a business. And 110 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: she is doing this based on her work in Michigan 111 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 1: where she did this zacht thing and uh, you know, 112 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: you would think that she would be able to answer 113 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: questions about how that went, but Leslie Stall just kind 114 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: of through it out there. You can almost tell that 115 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: Leslie Stall, who's the sixty Minutes anchor who was interviewing her, 116 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: you can almost tell by her delivery of the question 117 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: that she didn't think this was a question that was 118 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: going to make air. She was like, well, you know, 119 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: like kind of threw it out there off handedly. I 120 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: think we have the audio from this part of the interview. 121 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: Why take money away from that school that's not working 122 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: to bring them up to a level where they are 123 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: that school is working. Well, we should be funding and 124 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: investing in students, not in school school buildings, not in institutions, 125 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: not in systems, and we should be and so who 126 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: are back at the school. It's not working, what about 127 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: those kids? Well in places where there have been where 128 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: there is a lot of choice that's been introduced m Florida, 129 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: for example, to argument that if you take with funds 130 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: away the the schools will get better is not working 131 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: in Michigan, where you had a huge impact, an influence 132 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: over the direction of the school system here. I hesitate 133 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: to talk about all schools in general because schools are 134 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: made up of individual students attending them. Public schools here 135 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: are doing worse than they did Michigan schools need to 136 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: do better, there is no doubt about it. Have you 137 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: seen the really bad schools? Maybe try to figure out 138 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: what what they're doing. I have not. I have not. 139 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: I have not intentionally visited schools that are underperforming. Maybe 140 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: you should, Maybe I should? Yes, what her preparation for? Okay, 141 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: if they asked you a failed experiment in your core 142 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: philosophy that you oversaw in Michigan, your response will be 143 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: what And her response was either she had no response 144 00:08:54,559 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: because she was like, oh ship, they looked that up? Uh, 145 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 1: or her response was well, I can just say that. 146 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: You know, schools are made up of students, and when 147 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: you look at some students they do well it's like, 148 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: you know, that's not how data works, that's not how 149 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: any judgment of performance of any program would ever ever be. 150 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: So her what is her overall stance or proposition that 151 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: we should be taking money away from public schools basically 152 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: charter schools or the answer run charter schools like businesses, 153 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: they will compete with each other and that will bring 154 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: up performance. Is like like sort of what this was 155 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: all about, like what she was pushing for a long time. 156 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 1: So when and when Leslie Stall references taking money away 157 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 1: from public schools, that's basically the money that is being 158 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: spent on public schools currently by like school districts would 159 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: go to charter schools instead, that they would be taking 160 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: that money away from public schools that are already failing 161 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: and giving it to charter schools, these new schools, and 162 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: the idea that then these charter schools would do better 163 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: and just by sheer competition, public schools would feel like 164 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: they need would be inspired or encourage competition among charter schools. 165 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: Her whole thing is really just it's not based on 166 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: anything factual. Does she want to eliminate public schools, but 167 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,679 Speaker 1: she wouldn't. She wouldn't say that but that's systematically what 168 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 1: she's dismantling the public school system. So, I mean, basically, 169 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: there are some great charter schools, but the problem is 170 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 1: that you are not guaranteed to have a charter school 171 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: in your neighborhood, and so they're spreading the funding out. 172 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 1: They're taking funding away from public schools, which you are 173 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: guaranteed to have and giving it to these other schools. 174 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: So it's screwing people whose only option is public schools. 175 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: Option in high school was public schools. Yeah, I mean 176 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: for most of my life. Yeah, there was nothing else. Yeah. Um, 177 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: so the whole DeVos is that her name. So when 178 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: you guys were saying charter before, I was putting it 179 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 1: in the same breath as a private private school. It's weird. Yeah, 180 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: it's intertweing. They have like an agreement with like the 181 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: state to you know run as a school underneath. And 182 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,559 Speaker 1: some of them have been shown to you know, work, 183 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: and there have been some that yeah, you know create 184 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: really interesting amazing people like uh, superproducer on a Hosnier. 185 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 1: But the idea is that basically they think something public 186 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: can't work, and so rather than funding public schools, which 187 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 1: you know, used to be seen as one of the 188 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: great strengths of America was our public school system. Rather 189 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: than funding public schools and you know, providing access to 190 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:56,079 Speaker 1: education that's equal for everybody, they are, you know, creating 191 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: this new system that allows them to like, there's a 192 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,719 Speaker 1: reason they're doing this instead of funding public The other 193 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: reason to the profit aspect is that if you have 194 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: to build a charter school, that means a real estate 195 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: developer can build it and get money to build it. 196 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 1: And rather than the existing public schools, like, no, just 197 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: build a new thing which will cost money, and that 198 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:16,719 Speaker 1: money can go to someone in the private sector to 199 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 1: build it. So there's you know, there are many you know, 200 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: facets of it that can make it complicated. Yeah. So, Uh, 201 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 1: instead of doing a good job explaining this, she had 202 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: an interview where she, you know, did a terrible job 203 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: defending the idea. And uh, presumably because they knew this 204 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: interview was a huge l that she was going to take. Uh, 205 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: the administration released a plan for school safety. Uh, basically 206 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: in the dark of night on a Sunday and night, 207 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: and there was like a media conference call where Betsy 208 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: Divorce spoke to the media to announce their sort of 209 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 1: actions in response to the Florida school shooting, and they're 210 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 1: now calling it rather than being gun focused, it is 211 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: a school safety initiative UM, and they will be focusing 212 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 1: on repealing Obama era school discipline efforts because everything done 213 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: under Obama as evil and probably the cause of school shootings. Uh. 214 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 1: Looking into the impact of video games on youth violence, 215 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 1: which is just a widely discredited theory that makes zero sense. 216 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 1: Every every country has video games, and other countries are 217 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: not having the mass shooting problems that we're having. And 218 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 1: also they're looking at the effects of press coverage of 219 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: mass violence. I mean, we did on this show talk 220 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 1: about the fact that the media could maybe stop talking 221 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:50,439 Speaker 1: about like putting the face and name of mass shooters 222 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: front and center. So I mean, it is cool that 223 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: they're talking about press coverage of mass violence. It's cool 224 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 1: to see a presidential administer ration talk about that. I 225 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: just feel like they are going to treat that in 226 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: a very strange way. That Trump administration. Their relationship to 227 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: the media is such that I don't necessarily trust them 228 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: to be the ones to enforce rules. Uh. There's just 229 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: anything to antagonize the media, and I don't think antagonizing 230 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: the media is the way to go on that one. 231 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: It's everyone but the guns strategy. Yeah, it's to everyone 232 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: but the gun strategy. I mean they're also supporting a 233 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: couple of very minor gun changes, basically making gun sellers 234 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: actually do background checks like the law says they should. 235 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 1: So there is some gun stuff, but for the most part, 236 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: it's but to this distraction. Even like last week, you know, 237 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: when we're talking about that Florida bill, Like, yes, granted 238 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: it's a small step, but really these people, a lot 239 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: of Repubicans will just use that as cover to say, well, 240 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: we did something and then kick the camp down the 241 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 1: road like it's a distraction. Well, I guess I'm going 242 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: to have to dip into TV writings. Yes, other than costco, 243 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 1: I know very little most things in life. Um. I 244 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: find that oftentimes people don't understand that there is a 245 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: hierarchy in the writer's room because people feel like, oh, 246 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: like if this I don't know it's happened to me, 247 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: where like I've been like the only person of Colorado 248 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: show or the only woman, and then people will be like, well, 249 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: why why why didn't you stop this joke or why 250 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: isn't the show more representative, and it's like, dude, if 251 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: you are a lower level writer, you have zero power 252 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: in the room. You have no control. It's not egalitarian 253 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: like and also, at the end of the day, the 254 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: show runner, who's the boss of everything, is going to 255 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: make all the decisions. Like I think that's the other 256 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: thing too, is that people don't understand that there is 257 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: one person who is a writer called the showrunner, who 258 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: literally runs the show and they are the end all 259 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 1: be all of all decisions. Because I've seen people like 260 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: argue about casting too. They're like, well, that's not the 261 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: writer's fault, that's like the casting director. And it's like, 262 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: but who do you think that the casting director answers to? 263 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: So I guess for people, because we're all l A 264 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: people and understand the industry, please break down sort of 265 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: the hierarchy of power creative decision making on a show. 266 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: So I think for people to really understand what how 267 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: this all works. Um, So on a show, there's a 268 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: right one first of all, like TV is the writer's medium, 269 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: Like it's different in film in that like in film, 270 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: like the director's kind of the end all be all 271 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: and it's their vision. But in TV, it's always the 272 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: writers and uh, and specifically, there's always one writer called 273 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: the showrunner, who is the boss of every every single 274 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: thing on the show, and they usually are the creator 275 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 1: of the show, but not always because sometimes, you know, 276 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: like a more inexperienced person might create a show and 277 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: the network will be like, well, you've never run a show, 278 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: you've never really worked on a show before, so I'm 279 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: gonna bring in somebody who's more experienced. Yes, exactly, Um, 280 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: but that's who the show runner is. And it's always 281 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: a writer. And then on the writing staff, there are 282 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: two types of writers. There's upper level writers and there's 283 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: lower level writers. And the simple way of explaining it 284 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: is that the way they're paid is differently. Um. But 285 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 1: but it's also like experience in power. So here are 286 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: the titles. Like the is what's very confusing for a 287 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: lot of people when they look at the credits of 288 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 1: a show, which is there's no credit, that's just writers, 289 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 1: like they all have Yeah, yeah, they just all they 290 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: all have different titles. And so these are the titles 291 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 1: of what writers are. Lower level is staff writer. Staff 292 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: writer is the lowest possible level writer. That's like entry level. Um. 293 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 1: And then next up is story editor, and then next 294 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 1: up from that is executive story editor. And these are 295 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: lower level writers. Um, they're paid a weekly salary. And 296 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 1: then upper level writers are all people who have the 297 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: word producer in their name, so co producer, producer, consulting producers, 298 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 1: supervising producer, co executive producer, and then executive producer. So 299 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: the show well, the showrunner is credited as an executive 300 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:43,239 Speaker 1: producer and but most here's what's more confusing is that 301 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 1: not all executive producers are writers, so like, so they'll 302 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: be like ten executive producers, but probably only like one 303 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: or two of them are actually writers, like James L. 304 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: Brooks for The Simpsons. Yeah yeah totally, and like and 305 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: executive like the show creators. Um, managers if they have 306 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 1: managers will be credited as executive producers if they were 307 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 1: the ones who kind of like put the whole thing together, 308 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 1: so there and then like executives from like every production 309 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 1: company that it went through, like it's a whole thing. Um. 310 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:17,959 Speaker 1: But uh uh, upper level writers are you know, because 311 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: they you kind of work your way up to that, 312 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:23,679 Speaker 1: so um, they're more experienced and so generally speaking, at 313 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: least in a comedy writer's room. Um, most showers will 314 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: look to everyone's obviously different, but most showners will look 315 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: to the upper level writers to kind of do more 316 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 1: of the big picture stuff like story, the structure of 317 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: the story, like the actual story, emotional arcs, seasonal arcs, 318 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: whereas like with lower level writers, they generally kind of 319 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: just want them to pitch jokes and like things just 320 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: be joke machines. Really, I mean, everyone's different. There are 321 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 1: a lot of shore runners who are more egalitarian, as 322 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: like everyone should have a hand and everything, but more 323 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,159 Speaker 1: often than not, that's kind of the breakdown of power. 324 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,879 Speaker 1: So you as one person cannot completely dictate what the 325 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 1: show is going to be. You're not special. It's actually 326 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: if you're at the lower level. At the lower level, 327 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 1: you're just like looking for like when is a conversation 328 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 1: you're allowed to join? You know, Yeah, have there been 329 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 1: moments where you've tried to bring up a concern and 330 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 1: a million and then it just sort of just like 331 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: is it more like your heard or people just kind 332 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 1: of go It depends. It depends on the people at 333 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: the top. It depends on who you're talking to. Because 334 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,119 Speaker 1: there's some show runners who are like, look, I'm just 335 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: trying to keep my fucking head above water here, like 336 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 1: I'm trying to deliver a show, like and if I 337 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: don't deliver a show, like, my life is over. You know, 338 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: this is this is everything to me. Um, I don't 339 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,440 Speaker 1: have time to like listen to the concern of like, 340 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: you know, a young writer who's this is like their 341 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: first job, you know, but there are other people who 342 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: but there are also other show runners who are like, yeah, 343 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 1: I want to hear it. I wanna you know, especially 344 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: if they're like a more sensitive or wokesh uh like 345 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: white showrunner and the person that is bring up a 346 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: concern is either woman or a person of color or 347 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: LGBT or something like that, Like they should like want 348 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: to listen to that and be like, how do I 349 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 1: not sound like shitty eighties comic you know? Right right. 350 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: It's crazy that joke writing is not like a main 351 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: person thing, because that's that's something that's like for the 352 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 1: staff writers because well, no, like I mean, obviously everybody 353 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: does it, but like, but generally speaking, they kind of, 354 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: at least in more traditional rooms, they generally want the 355 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: lower level people to just be joke machines. Like when 356 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 1: the when the upper level people like get to a 357 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: point where they're like, Okay, we just need like pitches 358 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,239 Speaker 1: like that's that's kind of when the conversation. Yeah, that's 359 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: kind of when you need to shine. All right, let 360 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,880 Speaker 1: us take a quick break and then we'll be right back. 361 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: And we're back. Let's talk about the firing. Everybody's been 362 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 1: talking about. Everybody in America is talking about John Mcentie, 363 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: who is Donald Trump's personal assistant, has been fired. Um 364 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: that among other people. Obviously, we're like to the other 365 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,119 Speaker 1: one dubious financial. It's really weird. These reports are just 366 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: so strange. So first of all, it's just weird that 367 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,159 Speaker 1: his personal assistant, like the guy who has all the 368 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,879 Speaker 1: dirt on him, was a like he has a seven 369 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: million view trick shot compilation on on YouTube where he's 370 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: like throwing footballs in the basketball hoops from like way mega. 371 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:26,439 Speaker 1: But he so he was last night escorted out of 372 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: the White House. Uh, and it was such a you know, 373 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 1: serious matter that they wouldn't even let him get his jacket. 374 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: So it was between thirty six and forty one degrees 375 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: last night and Washington d c Uh. They were just 376 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: not letting him go back to get his jacket. They 377 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: just kicked him out in his shirt sleeves. The fun out. 378 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: They're throwing out a drunk from a bar. But that's 379 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,679 Speaker 1: kind of But what's crazy is we all see this 380 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,399 Speaker 1: unfolding with the stuff like this has been unfolding for 381 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 1: the last year and have and yet more people continue 382 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: to want to join this administration, which is so crazy. Yeah. 383 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,400 Speaker 1: I mean, it's one of the few places you could 384 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: be a felon and they'll hire you. Right. So, obviously 385 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: with something that's serious and apparently, according to sources close 386 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: to the administration, it was related to quote serious financial crimes. 387 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:24,880 Speaker 1: Uh so, obviously he is screwed and won't be able 388 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: to find a job anytime. Oh wait, he has already 389 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:33,679 Speaker 1: got his next job to be the senior advisor for 390 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 1: campaign operations for the Trump campaign for uh so, they're 391 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 1: apparently he knows something because they're trying to keep him 392 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,400 Speaker 1: as close as possible. Then I want him having another 393 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 1: seven million view YouTube video where he's like, Okay, so 394 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: this ship was crazy. For my next trick shot, I'm 395 00:22:55,440 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 1: gonna play a voice note I took uh and yet 396 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: that that was a big firing. That was a big firing. 397 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: But the other story that everybody's really talking about Game 398 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: of Thrones for dumb people continues. Rex Tillerson is out 399 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 1: as the Secretary of State. Uh. This was something that 400 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: had been rumored to be coming down the pike since 401 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,680 Speaker 1: the fall, that he was going to get fired because 402 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,640 Speaker 1: you know, once he called Trump a moron, and then 403 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 1: the press was like, did you call Trump a moron? 404 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:31,880 Speaker 1: He was like, I'm not. We're not talking about this, 405 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,679 Speaker 1: Like he just refused to say. Well, he could have 406 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,199 Speaker 1: lied all you guys to the media, that's all you do, 407 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 1: but he was I think he was sending him because 408 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: guys a idiot. Yeah, He's like, I'm wrong. Yeah, you're 409 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 1: gonna sit here and tell me you haven't called him 410 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:56,120 Speaker 1: a moron? Um? And yeah, So Trump fired him over Twitter. Uh. 411 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 1: And you know, Tillerson's main like right hand guy, I 412 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: uh told the media that Tillerson found out about his 413 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:08,120 Speaker 1: firing on Twitter, and uh, oh he on Twitter. That's 414 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,120 Speaker 1: what That's what Tillerson's right hand man said. And then 415 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 1: the White House contradicted that and said, no, we told 416 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:16,919 Speaker 1: him Friday that he was going to be fired, and 417 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: so he knew about it because we're a professional organization, 418 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 1: Why would we fire him over Twitter? And then they 419 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: fired Tillerson's right hand guy, who had contradicted them for 420 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 1: telling the truth man for these very important negotiations. My 421 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: favorite part of the firing is that Trump did it 422 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,199 Speaker 1: and said he'll probably be much happier now, which is 423 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 1: like the sort of thing that you would right, like 424 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 1: like that a passive aggressive like wounded lover would say 425 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: about someone like I bet you're real happy. Now? Does 426 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: she go down on you in a theater? Honest? Uh? Anyways, 427 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:01,400 Speaker 1: he continually undermine Tillerson. I'm sure he is much happier now. 428 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: Everybody who has any history and diplomacy was like, you know, 429 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: this guy should quit, Like especially when when he was 430 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: negotiating with North Korea and Trump came out on Twitter 431 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: and was like, don't waste your time rex these guys, 432 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: Like right, He's like, no, I think dialogue is the 433 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 1: best route. Right. Well, because so now that means that 434 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: Mike Pompeo, who is the head of the CIA, is 435 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: now next in line or if that's who is going 436 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 1: to be the next Secretary State, right, So we'll see 437 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 1: how that goes. Because they differ a lot certain policy issues. 438 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 1: He's pretty hawkish, right, yeah, And like he's down to 439 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 1: pull out of the Iran deal. Oh um, because, like 440 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: as we're saying before, that's the only thing keeping them 441 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 1: from having nuclear weapons. But just Trump just wants to 442 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,439 Speaker 1: make good on his campaign pledge because it's just a 443 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:54,640 Speaker 1: bad deal. But okay, sure it was done by Obama's Yeah, 444 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: so if everything is bad Obama bad, everything good. And 445 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 1: like Rex Dollerson wanted to stay in the Paris Climate Agreement, 446 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,679 Speaker 1: Mike Pompeo doesn't really care. He's kind of like a 447 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,919 Speaker 1: climate change and I are I think he's in his 448 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: in his confirmation hearing, he was like, I didn't really 449 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 1: want to talk about science at all. So in that way, 450 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: I guess Trump has found a buddy that will just 451 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: kind of go along with whatever he says. And also 452 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,719 Speaker 1: Tillerson came out in the aftermath of the announcement that 453 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: North Korea and the and uh Trump would be meeting 454 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 1: and was like, well, we're let's let's pump the brakes 455 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: a little bit here, guys, Like we're not gonna just 456 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: like throw Trump in there like in a meeting. And 457 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 1: Trump apparently didn't like that, And he's been sort of 458 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 1: against Tillerson getting any credit for North Korea from the start, 459 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: since he released that statement being like, don't waste your time, Rex, 460 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: And apparently, according to insight sources, Trump decided to replace 461 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 1: Tillerson now to have a new team in place before 462 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 1: upcoming talks with Kim jonguans. So it was explicitly like 463 00:26:55,920 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: the North Korea thing, Jesus, Mike Pompeo, Dennis Rodman better 464 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: be part of that delegation, for sure, he will be, 465 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 1: just to make I feel like that would be the 466 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: only safety mechanism we have at this point. Sadly because 467 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 1: his whole Yeah, he just showed up. He's like, hey, 468 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,159 Speaker 1: my man, it's Steve kerr To, I got even got 469 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: Luke Longley, right, not j not Jordan, Yeah, because Jordan 470 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: is an asshole and probably wants to watch the world burns. 471 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: So but then that means then there's an opening at 472 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 1: the CIA, which means the deputy director, Gina haspel Uh 473 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,119 Speaker 1: is who Trump wants to be the new head of 474 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 1: the CIA, and she would be the first woman to 475 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 1: run the Spike Group, a victory for all of womankind. Yeah, 476 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: but you know, she's got a little bit of a 477 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 1: past like most CIA people do. She I think she 478 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 1: was one of the she ran the first black site 479 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: like torture facility in Thailand, uh and was also you know, 480 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: she's one of the top people running the torture program, 481 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 1: along with the Alkaheda suspect Abu zabay of who they 482 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 1: waterboarded eighty three times in a single month and like 483 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,159 Speaker 1: slammed him into walls, put him in a coffin. Her parents, 484 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 1: they're bragging to other parents. At one point they thought 485 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: they killed him from all the torture he did. He 486 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: and then they found out he didn't have any useful 487 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 1: information to provide. Same with thro all that ship just 488 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 1: for that and also ordered like the destruction of video, 489 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 1: destroyed the videotape. Yeah, I know. Diane Feinstein blocked her 490 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: once too, when she was going to get a promotion again. 491 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 1: A lot of intelligence people was like, look, you're not 492 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: gonna be able to be a top c A person 493 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 1: and not have your fucking hands all over the dirtiest ship. 494 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 1: But at the same time, I don't know if that's 495 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: like a good enough reason because a lot of people 496 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: will say, like, you know, she was basically carrying out 497 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 1: a program that the President in the White House and 498 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: other top people had signed off on, and she was 499 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: just following orders. But we'll see, because she'll still have 500 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: to get confirmed and if like you know, John McCain 501 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 1: is not a fan of torture, so he might not 502 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 1: be a vote that would confirm her. Rand Paul I 503 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: think voted against Pompeiyo there, I mean, so there's she 504 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 1: might not be immediately uh seated. John McCain is not 505 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: a fan of torture. No, apparently he had he wanted something. 506 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: He had a bad experience with that. Uh So, do 507 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 1: we have any reason to believe that Pompeo will be 508 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: like somebody who actually staffs the diplomat like the diplomatic positions, 509 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 1: because I mean that's the thing that Tiller since tenure 510 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: has been marked by, you know, just not hiring any 511 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 1: of the positions in the State Department. We'll see, I mean, 512 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 1: he systematically gutted the State Department. So I don't know 513 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 1: what Mike Pompeo's vision is for the State Department. He 514 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: didn't like gut the CIA when he to know, I mean, 515 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 1: he was just yeah, you can't you know what I mean, 516 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 1: Like you gotta keep that agency running baby, right right yesterday, Uh, 517 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: there was a special election in a heavily dark red district. 518 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: Um at least it was the last presidential election. Right. 519 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: Trump won by twenty percentage points. So read that Democrats 520 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 1: didn't even run a candidate for like two congressional cycles. Yeah, 521 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 1: they're like fucking bro like, we don't need to bother. 522 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: But this year they ran Connor Lamb And he is 523 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:12,239 Speaker 1: a former marine, and I guess he's somewhat conservative and 524 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: his stance on like guns and stuff, but it doesn't matter. 525 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 1: He's a Democrat in a district where you know, the 526 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 1: guy who was running against secone is like just straight 527 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: up he claimed, like one of his soundbites was I 528 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: was Trump before Trump was Trump, Like he was just 529 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 1: yeah he no, yeah, just like you know what. Whatever 530 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: you guys liked about Trump, that's me. So let's just 531 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: let's see how you feel about Trump now. Suff crust 532 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,479 Speaker 1: pizza before Trump less than two years after before voted 533 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: for him in record numbers. How did how did that go? Yeah? 534 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 1: I mean, look, the demographics of that district are really 535 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 1: what's crazy. It's white, working class. Uh, and like you said, 536 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,120 Speaker 1: I think Trump won by twenty points or something. Uh, 537 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: the fact that this Democrat eked out of victory means 538 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 1: a lot of Republicans were like, oh, I'm willing to 539 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: vote for this Democrat. And that should alarm the GOP 540 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 1: uh and and most conservative like think tanks and and 541 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 1: and special interest groups because I think outside group spent 542 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: something like thirteen million dollars on this race because they 543 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: just you know, they knew this was such an important 544 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: race because it's a deep red district. And Connor Lamb Yeah, 545 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 1: like he obviously wasn't super progressive because you have to 546 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 1: kind of take an account what the district is like. 547 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,280 Speaker 1: But either way, like he's still campaigned on like universal healthcare, 548 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: like expanded background checks for guns. He was, he's pro choice, 549 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 1: he supports medical marijuana, you know, all the things conservatives do. 550 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: Because you cut to today and after this like really 551 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 1: embarrassing defeat happened, everyone and their mother on the GOP 552 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,120 Speaker 1: is like, well, you know, he ran like as a 553 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 1: conservative and they're trying the mitigating has begun. Yeah, so, um, 554 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,960 Speaker 1: you know Fox News last night, I I switched over 555 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,520 Speaker 1: to them, as you know, CNN still hasn't called this 556 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: as we're recording this. We're recording this on you know, 557 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, right, CNN still hasn't called it. In New 558 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 1: York Time still hasn't called it. But the latest is 559 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 1: that Lamb leads by six seven votes after all the 560 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 1: absentee votes have been counted. So he leads by six 561 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: d twenty seven votes with all the votes counted, So 562 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 1: h barring any sort of recount, Hawking, but he has 563 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: more votes than one, right, But I don't know, there 564 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 1: could be for some reason, nobody's calling it even though 565 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 1: everybody seems to be implying that he wants I wonder 566 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: if because they think it might be a lawsuit situation 567 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 1: or right, yeah, like with al Gore and Bush. Yeah, 568 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 1: it could be, especially because this is so embarrassing for 569 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 1: Republicans that they and there were weird things with like 570 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: different counties holding back their votes last night, like and 571 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 1: people were like, this is really irregular and the sort 572 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 1: of thing that would cause a lot of red flags 573 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 1: to go up if you know, you're basically holding the 574 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 1: votes back until you need those votes to see how 575 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: all the other votes are counted, which is kind of 576 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 1: a shady thing. And these were in heavily red districts, 577 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 1: So people were maybe thinking that something was going on there, 578 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 1: but as of right now, it looks like all of 579 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,720 Speaker 1: the absentee votes have been counted and the Democrats are 580 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 1: still leading by six seven votes. So I flipped from 581 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 1: CNN over to Fox News and it was being downplayed 582 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 1: like a motherfucker. The best was Fox and Friends this morning. 583 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 1: What were they doing because you know, that's Daddy's favorite show, 584 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: and so they already the rumors were that like if 585 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 1: if Connor Lamb won, like heads were going to roll 586 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 1: because like again, Trump picked a fucking loser. Uh, and 587 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 1: you know clearly that fucking carousing rally that he gave 588 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 1: over the weekend where he called Chuck Todd, yes, Chuck 589 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 1: talk on him a son of a bitch, and you know, 590 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 1: mocking Maxie Waters and all this other ship, mocking the 591 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 1: idea of him being presidential. Yeah, exactly where he was like, oh, 592 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 1: I love the true groups. Like he literally said a 593 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,080 Speaker 1: line like that. It's like, Yo, what the fund He's saying? 594 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 1: That's that is a sentiment you should hold sincerely as president. Anyway, 595 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,440 Speaker 1: So that didn't work because this guy at Cicone he 596 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,280 Speaker 1: ran on that like liberals hate God kind of message 597 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,760 Speaker 1: and you know, they hate our way of living. Uh 598 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 1: and yeah. Cut to today, So on Fox and Friends, 599 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 1: they were like, they're like, yeah, he basically ran as 600 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,920 Speaker 1: a Republican. You know, he supported the Republican tax plan. 601 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,279 Speaker 1: He did not. He did not. That's I mean, that's 602 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,320 Speaker 1: just a complete that's completely falsified. He said he supported 603 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,759 Speaker 1: the president's uh like, immigration policies. He did not. He 604 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,279 Speaker 1: was like like supporting dreamers and undocumented ran on the 605 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,719 Speaker 1: tax cuts. Yeah, exactly, And no one gave a ship 606 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:42,719 Speaker 1: because there's a lot of polling to suggest a lot 607 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,799 Speaker 1: of people who are not wealthy do not give a 608 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,120 Speaker 1: funk about the tax because because it does not affect them, 609 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: telling you guys, people aren't stupid, like you can. You 610 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 1: can pretend like they are, but they know. People starting 611 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 1: and then the last thing was like, oh, you know, 612 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,719 Speaker 1: he stood with the Republicans on abortion, and because he's 613 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,160 Speaker 1: a Catholic, he's basically a conservative. He said, yeah, I 614 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,840 Speaker 1: am Catholic and I'm opposed to abortion, but I believe 615 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,080 Speaker 1: that a woman has a right to choose what they 616 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,279 Speaker 1: want to do. So they sort of took that and 617 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: as a candidate, he's not going to impose his religious 618 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,120 Speaker 1: beliefs on the people that he's what a novel idea? Yeah. 619 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,080 Speaker 1: Also he's thirty three, so he's a former marine and 620 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:23,080 Speaker 1: now wow, I need I need to get my life together. Seriously, 621 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 1: you gotta stop hitting up those Marvel characters on Twitter 622 00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:32,239 Speaker 1: and not a regular man. Well, this dude might be 623 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 1: as close as they come because former marine who just 624 00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,400 Speaker 1: knocked off I know, is he's single, that's going to 625 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,719 Speaker 1: be my next Google search history. Go ahead, I would 626 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,799 Speaker 1: guess that's the favorite of Democrats right now to run 627 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 1: in conservative districts is get a veteran in there. Yeah, 628 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,239 Speaker 1: it's it's much easier for people to kind of trust. 629 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,719 Speaker 1: They're like, Okay, you maybe know that I handle a 630 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,200 Speaker 1: gun right, and I mean there's nothing wrong with and 631 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,240 Speaker 1: also you know that I say that is something that's smart. 632 00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:57,279 Speaker 1: I mean, if that's what you need to do to 633 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,080 Speaker 1: bridge the gap and make people understand that you and 634 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 1: also have this common this shared common ground or shared 635 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,400 Speaker 1: like core values and also be like yo, you might also. 636 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,040 Speaker 1: I think the thing that we saw the most this 637 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:08,799 Speaker 1: past year, at least that I saw the most, was 638 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,640 Speaker 1: especially on social media, and like Twitter, was the assumption 639 00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:15,000 Speaker 1: that all veterans are Republican. That is that is a 640 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 1: big thing. I think him being a former marine, and 641 00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:18,400 Speaker 1: you don't probably you don't have to be a Republican 642 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:23,279 Speaker 1: to love your country. And I mean to like that 643 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:28,160 Speaker 1: is an incredible like sacrifice that people uh you know 644 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:32,839 Speaker 1: give to fight for their country and sacrifice themselves. And yeah, 645 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:37,839 Speaker 1: well yeah, they weaponized that during all the Iraq worship too, 646 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:39,399 Speaker 1: because they want to be like, oh, you're like you're 647 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,279 Speaker 1: against this like illegal war, but you know, you don't 648 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,000 Speaker 1: support the troops. It's like, no, come on, that's not 649 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,759 Speaker 1: what we're talking about. But I guess the other thing 650 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,799 Speaker 1: to talk about with this too is the district. The 651 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,279 Speaker 1: reason it was vacated is because the former congressman who 652 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,319 Speaker 1: had it, he is like an anti you know, abortion guy, 653 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,520 Speaker 1: and was like leaning on his mistress to have an 654 00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,640 Speaker 1: abortion and then that got out and so that's why 655 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,759 Speaker 1: that's why, that's why the seed opened up. But the 656 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,880 Speaker 1: other thing to talk about two is that this district 657 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,279 Speaker 1: is not going to exist next year because of like 658 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,920 Speaker 1: that was Carlson was saying last night. He was like, 659 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:16,160 Speaker 1: and just so we're clear, this isn't gonna exist pretty soon, right, Yeah, 660 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,640 Speaker 1: but either way, the factor mean, even if Connor lamb, 661 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:20,799 Speaker 1: they find that he loses the fact that he even 662 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,719 Speaker 1: pushed it to the line. And I mean, the thing 663 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,120 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson was saying to try and undercut the seriousness 664 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: of this devastating loss for the Republicans was that, uh, 665 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,160 Speaker 1: when this is a district that's not even gonna exist 666 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,640 Speaker 1: here in like eleven months. So uh but super producer 667 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,480 Speaker 1: Nick Stump was pointing out that this is a district 668 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,000 Speaker 1: that isn't going to exist because they are redrawing it 669 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,799 Speaker 1: because it was so unfairly slanted to the Republicans. The 670 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:51,200 Speaker 1: Republicans drew it up themselves to have an unfair advantage, 671 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,560 Speaker 1: and so they weren't even able to win this district 672 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,759 Speaker 1: that they drew up like to cheat. Essentially, they had 673 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,000 Speaker 1: the game Genie invincibility code on and they still died 674 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,480 Speaker 1: in the game. Deep cut video Gamera. Yes, just yeah, 675 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,000 Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll post a picture of Tucker Carlson's 676 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,400 Speaker 1: face on Twitter so you can see what. Like, you 677 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,520 Speaker 1: can tell that he realizes deep down, like his insides 678 00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,719 Speaker 1: are digesting themselves because he knows, he knows what's really 679 00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:19,160 Speaker 1: going down. He's just he just isn't willing to say it. 680 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,360 Speaker 1: And I will post a picture of the game Genie 681 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:26,600 Speaker 1: by by Galube. Oh crap, this Connor Lamb kid is 682 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,840 Speaker 1: not kid Mr thirty three. He's cute. You better. Okay, 683 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,759 Speaker 1: I think I might see somebody sign the d M S. 684 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:37,440 Speaker 1: But we talk about healthcare. But this district it, you know, 685 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,359 Speaker 1: they could it won't exist because of all the redistricting 686 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:44,200 Speaker 1: because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that like the jerrymandering 687 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,719 Speaker 1: heavily favored Republicans. So now they broke it up in 688 00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,560 Speaker 1: the new districts. So he's gonna if he wants to 689 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,200 Speaker 1: stay in office, he's gonna have to run in a 690 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,040 Speaker 1: different district come November. Like both of these guys potentially 691 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,480 Speaker 1: could be in Congress by if they run in different 692 00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,759 Speaker 1: districts again, but he will hold this seat at least 693 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,520 Speaker 1: for the session of Congress. But yeah, to go along 694 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,480 Speaker 1: with the whole like, oh, he won because he's a conservative. 695 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,719 Speaker 1: So the people who are really scared obviously congressional Republicans. 696 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:16,239 Speaker 1: So today Paul Ryan really tried to fucking do a 697 00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,680 Speaker 1: little spine job to try and frame Connor Lamb as 698 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,480 Speaker 1: a Republican. I don't know that there's a big surprise. Um. 699 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,560 Speaker 1: I think the candidate that's going to win this race 700 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,880 Speaker 1: is the candidate that ran as a pro life, pro gun, 701 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,160 Speaker 1: anti Nancy Pelosi conservative. That's the candidate that's gonna win 702 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,360 Speaker 1: this race. So this is something that you're not going 703 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,439 Speaker 1: to see repeated. Because they didn't have a primary, they're 704 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,239 Speaker 1: able to pick a candidate who could run as a conservative, 705 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,799 Speaker 1: who ran against the minority leader, who ran on a 706 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:50,080 Speaker 1: conservative agenda. Yeah, a conservative agenda of universal healthcare, background checks, 707 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 1: medical marijuana purchase. Yeah. So I'm a Republican. Yeah. So. 708 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,359 Speaker 1: I mean Paul Ryan is just it's hard for him 709 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,480 Speaker 1: to get his mind around the fact that his main 710 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,279 Speaker 1: you know, the way he defines being a conservative and 711 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,920 Speaker 1: a Republican inside his mind is we give as much 712 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,120 Speaker 1: money as we possibly can to rich people like we 713 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,239 Speaker 1: we just give all the taxes and we get rid 714 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,640 Speaker 1: of all the entitlements for uh people who need help, 715 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:19,919 Speaker 1: and there are just no you know, safety nets in America. Uh. 716 00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:23,480 Speaker 1: That is what being a conservative means. And the fact 717 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:27,600 Speaker 1: that people would be disagreeing with that, and I don't 718 00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,080 Speaker 1: I still understand where he thinks the numbers are coming 719 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,520 Speaker 1: from Like why he thinks anybody would think that's a 720 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,719 Speaker 1: good idea other than him and the billionaires who he 721 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,919 Speaker 1: works for. But yeah, he just he's never gonna get 722 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,720 Speaker 1: his mind around, I mean around that idea. Sweet sweet 723 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:44,680 Speaker 1: justice would be the House flipping in November and Paul 724 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,359 Speaker 1: Ryan losing his gavel and we get to see him. Man, 725 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,359 Speaker 1: if he got even voted out of office, that would 726 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:51,799 Speaker 1: be amazing. But I would love to see him lose 727 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,680 Speaker 1: his speakership well, because I mean he when when you 728 00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:58,800 Speaker 1: look at like how different counties voted, his county wasn't 729 00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,480 Speaker 1: like plus twenty, It wasn't that high. I think it 730 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,480 Speaker 1: was plus eleven Trump. So uh, you know, when people 731 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,759 Speaker 1: are seeing a plus twenty Trump county flip, then it 732 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:13,160 Speaker 1: seems like anything can happen. Anybody can go down in 733 00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:15,680 Speaker 1: this next which is which is why I think they're panicking. 734 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,880 Speaker 1: That's and even Brian Kilmeade on Fox and Friends. His 735 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,440 Speaker 1: tweet was Democrat Connor Lamb's great showing in red district 736 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:25,919 Speaker 1: shows DEM's the way to November success. Support Republican issues, Right, 737 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,880 Speaker 1: what the fuck are they there? What are they telling you? Like? 738 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,759 Speaker 1: I don't understand how a Republican would read this and 739 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,919 Speaker 1: be like, oh, yeah, okay, so the Democrats are Republicans, now, Yeah, 740 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:40,319 Speaker 1: panicking is uncomfortable. It causes your you know, heart rate 741 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,240 Speaker 1: to shoot through the roof, and they have to justify 742 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,840 Speaker 1: it in some way, right, And nobody likes to panic. 743 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,839 Speaker 1: And you know, the Democrats were the victim of a 744 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,320 Speaker 1: little bit of you know, gaslighting themselves and the last 745 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:56,680 Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen presidential election, and now the Republicans turned 746 00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:00,319 Speaker 1: to tell themselves that everything's all right, right, It's all 747 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:04,920 Speaker 1: gonna be okay. That's what they start saying about. All right, 748 00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,919 Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back. 749 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,200 Speaker 1: And we're back, and we want to talk about UFOs 750 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,800 Speaker 1: because you know, we talked a few months ago about 751 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,520 Speaker 1: the fact that The New York Times was just like, 752 00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:28,120 Speaker 1: oh yeah, UFOs are a thing. By the way, we 753 00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,799 Speaker 1: haven't been talking about this because we thought we'd sound crazy. 754 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,239 Speaker 1: But now we have this dude who used to work 755 00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:36,080 Speaker 1: at the Pentagon who just left his job and was like, yeah, 756 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:39,560 Speaker 1: so my job was to monitor UFOs and they weren't 757 00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,759 Speaker 1: taking me seriously enough, so I've left my job. I'm 758 00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,360 Speaker 1: starting this thing with the dude from Blink one two, 759 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:50,919 Speaker 1: which makes it sound weird, but it's just a guy 760 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,600 Speaker 1: who has always been about this and he's like, yeah, no, 761 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,759 Speaker 1: there are UFOs. So uh in case you thought that 762 00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,640 Speaker 1: they had just been explained away, the Y and Posts 763 00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:02,600 Speaker 1: just had an article that came out that was like, 764 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:06,279 Speaker 1: the military keeps encountering UFOs, why doesn't the Pentagon care? 765 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,520 Speaker 1: And they pointed out that, you know, I think this 766 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:13,040 Speaker 1: was an op ed. It was by a uh former 767 00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:18,080 Speaker 1: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for the Clinton 768 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,080 Speaker 1: and George W. Bush administrations. Uh, and they were like, 769 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:28,000 Speaker 1: you know, they have insight into how the Pentagon operates. 770 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,360 Speaker 1: And the point they were making, which I thought was 771 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,960 Speaker 1: really smart, is Okay, so let's say they're not aliens. 772 00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:37,719 Speaker 1: If this is Russia or China, they have technology that 773 00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:42,200 Speaker 1: is like decades ahead of ours, but figure this out. Yeah, 774 00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,600 Speaker 1: that's what's crazy because obviously sput Nick was enough for 775 00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,439 Speaker 1: us to be like, okay, funk that we're gonna own 776 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,680 Speaker 1: space and that created something. But now it's like, it's 777 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:54,120 Speaker 1: it's weird to yeah, I think that if this is 778 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:58,640 Speaker 1: actual technology that another nation is wielding, like, Wow, we 779 00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,799 Speaker 1: are really fucking behind Yeah, and this is This was 780 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,839 Speaker 1: accompanied by another video of a tic tac shaped thing 781 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,279 Speaker 1: like the New York Times article. It's a tic Tac 782 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:13,640 Speaker 1: shaped object that is moving and flying in seemingly impossible ways. 783 00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:18,799 Speaker 1: And you can hear the like naval aviators like on 784 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:23,320 Speaker 1: the thing being like holy shit, what the funk is that? Uh? 785 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:25,920 Speaker 1: And they, you know, because nothing is supposed to be 786 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:30,200 Speaker 1: able to move. Yeah, I know they were fucking psyched, 787 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,160 Speaker 1: which I would be too. And another reason why this 788 00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,600 Speaker 1: guy had came out with these pieces because he was 789 00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,440 Speaker 1: saying he meets with a lot of people in the 790 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,880 Speaker 1: military who see this and like they just get kind 791 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:41,200 Speaker 1: of like yeah, yeah, yeah, we hear you, We hear you, 792 00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,840 Speaker 1: hear you, And nothing's really happening. Uh. And that's that 793 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:48,040 Speaker 1: is a little concerning because they've gutted like they apparently 794 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,680 Speaker 1: they've really have no budget dedicated to this, unless it's 795 00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:53,200 Speaker 1: so secret that they just don't want to talk about it. 796 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,640 Speaker 1: But I mean, I feel like this is something we 797 00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,880 Speaker 1: need to to seriously discuss. Have you seen the monsters 798 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,440 Speaker 1: are due on Maple Street episode of The Twilight Zone 799 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,479 Speaker 1: Always After reference? Okay, well, um, it was essentially that 800 00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,239 Speaker 1: aliens don't actually have to do anything, that we will 801 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,480 Speaker 1: just destroy ourselves. So that's what I would like to think. 802 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,640 Speaker 1: Why doesn't the Pentagon care because there's so much going 803 00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,319 Speaker 1: on here that we're like already killing ourselves here, so 804 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:21,399 Speaker 1: like the aliens don't even have to This is like, yeah, 805 00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,200 Speaker 1: they don't even have to come and funk us up. Um. Also, 806 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,520 Speaker 1: did you see that somebody made the Golden Girls theme 807 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:31,799 Speaker 1: song over the X Files opening? Did you see that? Oh? Man, 808 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,360 Speaker 1: it's so good you have to post that way. They 809 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,680 Speaker 1: took the Golden Girls theme song and put it to 810 00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:46,360 Speaker 1: the X Files opening and it actually works. So but 811 00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,560 Speaker 1: that is my like, I don't know, Yeah, I agree 812 00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,560 Speaker 1: that obviously we should be focused on on this, but 813 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,319 Speaker 1: what you're saying makes more sense as far as it 814 00:45:54,400 --> 00:46:01,840 Speaker 1: being another country here as opposed to actual aliens, right it. God, 815 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,279 Speaker 1: what I'm saying is if it is actual aliens, I 816 00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:05,840 Speaker 1: would love the fact that they're just sitting back and 817 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:09,160 Speaker 1: watching us destroy ourselves and they don't have to do anything, right, 818 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,040 Speaker 1: I think when was here when this story first came out, 819 00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:13,759 Speaker 1: we're saying, like, I think they probably just come watch 820 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:19,600 Speaker 1: our planet, like his reality TV. Yeah, holy sh it, 821 00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:24,840 Speaker 1: this guy is the leader of that that mound of earth. Yeah. Uh. 822 00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:26,440 Speaker 1: The other thing they're saying is like there's just kind 823 00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,000 Speaker 1: of like a real stigma of being like the quote 824 00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:33,000 Speaker 1: unquote alien guy in the national security bureaucracy, Like no 825 00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:36,920 Speaker 1: one really wants to be caping for aliens. But like 826 00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:38,880 Speaker 1: what the funk? Like, if you're looking at this, like 827 00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,480 Speaker 1: really this irrefutable advers whatever it is, there has to 828 00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,480 Speaker 1: be some kind of legitimate interest put into this. And 829 00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,040 Speaker 1: you can't just be labeled like a heretic or something 830 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,719 Speaker 1: because you're concerned. Yeah, but there's such a negative connotation 831 00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:50,880 Speaker 1: with believing in aliens. I mean when you look back 832 00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,000 Speaker 1: in history of people that said they got abducted, you 833 00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:57,719 Speaker 1: know they're anal probing and stuff like that, those people 834 00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:02,400 Speaker 1: are normally seen as being crazy. So Kanye is in 835 00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:04,800 Speaker 1: the news for a couple of reasons. First of all, 836 00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,880 Speaker 1: I guess he's been holed up in Jackson Hall, Wyoming, 837 00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:16,000 Speaker 1: which is like this, you know, very gorgeous like lush 838 00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:25,600 Speaker 1: nature towns to crazy views of you know, uh and uh. 839 00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:29,520 Speaker 1: And you know he's there for recovery purposes. But all 840 00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:34,080 Speaker 1: of a sudden, all these artists started visiting him, and 841 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,200 Speaker 1: people don't know if they're visiting him, but a lot 842 00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,640 Speaker 1: of people were posting picks in Jackson Hall and we 843 00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,440 Speaker 1: can only say Travis Scott, the Dream King, Louis Uh, 844 00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,280 Speaker 1: Kanye's cousin who's featured on a bunch of his albums, 845 00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:49,719 Speaker 1: Tony Williams, all suddenly are in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which 846 00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:55,279 Speaker 1: is not normally like known for. It's a diversity for 847 00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,640 Speaker 1: like like what Miami is for hip hop, like people 848 00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:01,839 Speaker 1: like Jackson my guy make a lot of white people uncomfortable. 849 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,120 Speaker 1: But you know, I mean because when he was doing 850 00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,880 Speaker 1: um my beautiful dark Twist of Fantasy, he did the 851 00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,160 Speaker 1: same thing in Hawaii, Like he made that whole album 852 00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,239 Speaker 1: in Hawaii and basically had everyone come to him to 853 00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,840 Speaker 1: do this. So I mean, look, it follows a pattern, 854 00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:18,520 Speaker 1: and he was there like I think last year. But 855 00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:20,760 Speaker 1: they say, like there's reporting now that he's there again, 856 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:22,879 Speaker 1: and when you couple that with this, I just don't 857 00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,040 Speaker 1: I'm curious to know what this album sounds like because 858 00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,640 Speaker 1: clearly Pablo was made while he was in the midst 859 00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:31,880 Speaker 1: of free falling mentally. Yeah, he was in a manic period. 860 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,320 Speaker 1: Uh he was, I think he had been. It was 861 00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,319 Speaker 1: kind of like that too. Yeah, the way he came 862 00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,320 Speaker 1: out to impress for Yes, this was also kind of 863 00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:42,000 Speaker 1: like yeah, so what is he? Is he actually in 864 00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,920 Speaker 1: recovery right now for or is that he's just is 865 00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:47,319 Speaker 1: that a cover? I think they've kept it kind of vague. Yeah, 866 00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,520 Speaker 1: Like I think maybe there was some drug stuff. There 867 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:53,399 Speaker 1: was also some bipolar stuff, and he like went off 868 00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:57,880 Speaker 1: his meds and then maybe got into some substances. Uh. 869 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,040 Speaker 1: But yeah, but it's been vague like that. Uh, like 870 00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:05,439 Speaker 1: ESPNS John Skipper's latest interview with Anybody's seen that, He's 871 00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:10,359 Speaker 1: like talks all around like what actually happens, very very weird. Uh. 872 00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,759 Speaker 1: But that's also a substance abuse thing. But anyways, So 873 00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,480 Speaker 1: the other reason that we've been talking about Kanye at 874 00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:23,440 Speaker 1: the office is because somebody released a Kanye Madness bracket. Uh, 875 00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,719 Speaker 1: you know, as as the March Madness brackets came out 876 00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:31,440 Speaker 1: on Sunday, somebody put out a bracket of Kanye is 877 00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:34,320 Speaker 1: what they deemed to be Kanye sixty four best songs 878 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:38,760 Speaker 1: pitted against one another. Uh. They have it color coded 879 00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:43,600 Speaker 1: by album, which is really useful. Uh. And you know 880 00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:47,640 Speaker 1: they I I appreciate them for doing this because it's 881 00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:50,719 Speaker 1: a it's a great presentation. Uh, it's a lot of fun. 882 00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,640 Speaker 1: The conversations we've been having. I just think they're way 883 00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,760 Speaker 1: off base with their taste. But I mean that's gonna happen. 884 00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:02,080 Speaker 1: That's just going to happen with you know, something is 885 00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:05,359 Speaker 1: subjective as music, but in particular Kanye's music, because there's 886 00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:09,200 Speaker 1: so many people who are like I only liked Kanye's 887 00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:13,080 Speaker 1: first two albums and that's me. Everything like sucks after that. 888 00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:18,879 Speaker 1: I personally have really enjoyed his more recent stuff a lot, 889 00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:22,960 Speaker 1: And I think the person who created this bracket might 890 00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:25,839 Speaker 1: be more in line with human might be me. Yeah, 891 00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:29,640 Speaker 1: the one seeds, Jesus walks, page, dropout, touch the sky, 892 00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:34,160 Speaker 1: oh all falls down? Uh, and it can't tell me 893 00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,359 Speaker 1: nothing is the only one that isn't off the first two, 894 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,759 Speaker 1: which is off the third, So yeah, it's all like 895 00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:45,279 Speaker 1: early but then you know the twos are also Yeah, 896 00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,920 Speaker 1: I mean it's Look, all I'm gonna say is the 897 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,920 Speaker 1: last call wins over everything for me personally, I just 898 00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,160 Speaker 1: love I have an emotional attachment the last Call. I 899 00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,440 Speaker 1: can't objectively says the best Kanye song, but I think 900 00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:58,680 Speaker 1: my favorite. I think it's the most Kanye song. It 901 00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:01,560 Speaker 1: is the most Kanye a song because it is him 902 00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:05,160 Speaker 1: just talking about himself about himself over a beat for 903 00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:08,880 Speaker 1: eight being yeah, and it's like putting Yeah. It's just 904 00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:13,600 Speaker 1: his sort of tireless fascination with himself and like with 905 00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:17,280 Speaker 1: telling his own story, and it's just such a great beat. Yeah, 906 00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,839 Speaker 1: we're looking at it like it takes you down memory lane, 907 00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:23,440 Speaker 1: like how much Kanye has changed? You know, He's like 908 00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:27,239 Speaker 1: his music changes so much. It's really hard to I 909 00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,680 Speaker 1: like all of us, I like everything he's down, but yeah, 910 00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:31,839 Speaker 1: it's it's tough to like looking at all falls down. 911 00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,960 Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, that's a tally different person. Is 912 00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:40,600 Speaker 1: vain issue with the whole fucking game? I mean, because 913 00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,400 Speaker 1: you know why he's still hungry. This is still humble 914 00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,239 Speaker 1: kany like as if there were such a thing. I 915 00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:48,800 Speaker 1: mean obviously you yeah, but like he's still obviously gassed 916 00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:51,239 Speaker 1: up on his own accomplishments, but he's still talking like 917 00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:52,920 Speaker 1: he really has a point to prove. Now. Kanyie is 918 00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,719 Speaker 1: in the I've proved everything, Fuck you I'm God, which 919 00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,080 Speaker 1: that version resonates less with me than someone who's confident 920 00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,080 Speaker 1: in himself and still it has a humility to know 921 00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:04,640 Speaker 1: that he has things to achieve or it is not perfect. 922 00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:08,160 Speaker 1: But talking about the subjectivity and this person hating uh, 923 00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:11,840 Speaker 1: certain Kanye projects like use Us, which is one of 924 00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:16,000 Speaker 1: my favorite Kanye albums. Uh, the seeding is they only 925 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,680 Speaker 1: have four songs from it, and Bound two is a 926 00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:22,760 Speaker 1: ten seed, Black skin Heads is a thirteen, New Slaves 927 00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,760 Speaker 1: is an eleven, and Blood on the Leaves is a thirteen. 928 00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:30,520 Speaker 1: So like which all seemed like all seem like classic 929 00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:35,719 Speaker 1: classic songs. Uh, and they're all treated like underdogs. What's 930 00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:37,920 Speaker 1: your way? You said he uses one of your favorites 931 00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:43,360 Speaker 1: or is it your favorite twisted fantasies? Yours? Probably twisted fantasy, 932 00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:46,920 Speaker 1: but it's up there. What about you? Late registration? It 933 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:52,440 Speaker 1: is my favorite? Yeah, Crack music Music is number six seed. Yeah. 934 00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:56,719 Speaker 1: I love the production on m Bom Bom because I 935 00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:01,000 Speaker 1: think John Bryan came on that to how he basically 936 00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:03,400 Speaker 1: be like, let me show you how like someone like 937 00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:07,120 Speaker 1: really produces an album, executive produces an album. Yeah, and yeah, 938 00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,200 Speaker 1: you can really feel that touch on because it was 939 00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:14,080 Speaker 1: almost the refined version of college dropout. John Bryant on there. Yeah, 940 00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:17,600 Speaker 1: yeah touch this guy is a one seed heard him 941 00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:19,399 Speaker 1: say as a sixth seed, I really loved that song 942 00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:22,520 Speaker 1: Ultra light Beans as twelve is a little bit, I 943 00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,880 Speaker 1: feel like it could be higher. Yeah, no so and 944 00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:29,440 Speaker 1: then Pablo, which I also love, The Real Friends a 945 00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,920 Speaker 1: thirteen seed, Famous is a fourteen seed. Real Friends is 946 00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,960 Speaker 1: a great song. But I love that song and that 947 00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:38,040 Speaker 1: I think, to go back to your point of people 948 00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:41,120 Speaker 1: of like him sort of like not being hungry anymore. 949 00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:43,319 Speaker 1: It feels like what he's trying to do if I 950 00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:44,839 Speaker 1: could try to get in his head a little bit, 951 00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:48,440 Speaker 1: he's sort of like using himself as an experiment, like 952 00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:51,279 Speaker 1: with his fame and like you, because he's his music 953 00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:55,000 Speaker 1: is started starting to mirror his his what he's becoming. Yeah, 954 00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:57,920 Speaker 1: and it's like it's hard to relate to, but it's 955 00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:01,200 Speaker 1: also like interesting to watch him become that person but 956 00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:04,080 Speaker 1: also rap about that because on Real Friends he's talking 957 00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:07,279 Speaker 1: about real like, he's kind of he's being very introspective. 958 00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:09,560 Speaker 1: He's like, man, like I can already tell people just 959 00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,359 Speaker 1: hit me up for ship that I want I hit 960 00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,840 Speaker 1: people up for just when I need something. You know, 961 00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:18,120 Speaker 1: I've been potentially extorted by a cousin, like all that 962 00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,560 Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Yeah, it's that's why I think maybe 963 00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:21,759 Speaker 1: I think that's one of the reasons why I think 964 00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,440 Speaker 1: I really liked Life of Pablo Is one of his 965 00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:25,600 Speaker 1: later albums. There was like a humanity or not that 966 00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,279 Speaker 1: like there's a lack of humanity, but it felt a 967 00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:32,279 Speaker 1: little more real, or that he was like vulnerable. Yeah. 968 00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,399 Speaker 1: I mean, we've all been there when we're having sex 969 00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,719 Speaker 1: with a porn star and she's just bleacher asshole and 970 00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:42,480 Speaker 1: gets you do that make me the worst? Yeah? No, no, 971 00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:45,839 Speaker 1: don't be too hard on yourself. But you're just right 972 00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,080 Speaker 1: here in the middle of this Vogue party, down the 973 00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:51,359 Speaker 1: whole party. But everybody started sucking. I mean, like, I mean, 974 00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:55,600 Speaker 1: would everybody start sucking? If that's not a direct quote 975 00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:58,840 Speaker 1: from me? I mean, what don't we here right in 976 00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:02,440 Speaker 1: the middle, didn't table? That's a real freestyle because he's 977 00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:08,080 Speaker 1: just like free, He's like, yep, life, we we should 978 00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:12,720 Speaker 1: talk about this. Uh. Living Portland a sketch that happened 979 00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:18,760 Speaker 1: uh in Oregon, Oregon. Portland's um so a man Alex 980 00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:22,160 Speaker 1: Lovell nearly lost his fingers, his life, and he appears 981 00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,640 Speaker 1: to have lost the woman he loved. I'm just reading 982 00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:27,960 Speaker 1: directly this article because it's just too fucking crazy to 983 00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:33,680 Speaker 1: summarize otherwise, the camist man is feeling pretty good. Quote. 984 00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,719 Speaker 1: I was just so proud for beating this samurai want 985 00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:39,760 Speaker 1: to be crazy lady with Hayte and her heart Level 986 00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:43,920 Speaker 1: twenty nine told The Oregonian in a Facebook message exchange Wednesday. 987 00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:47,760 Speaker 1: I've been preparing my whole life for something like this. Now, Jack, 988 00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:50,719 Speaker 1: what is something like this without? Because that was a 989 00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:52,799 Speaker 1: good lead up. But what are we talking about? So 990 00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:59,440 Speaker 1: his girlfriend, Emily Javier thirty attacked and repeatedly slashed him 991 00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:02,440 Speaker 1: with a sam Ride sword in his seat. That is 992 00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:04,759 Speaker 1: such a very specific thing for him to have been 993 00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:10,200 Speaker 1: preparing his whole life for. I'm prepared to fight an 994 00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:13,759 Speaker 1: angry girlfriend armed with the samurai sword, immediately roused from 995 00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,400 Speaker 1: sleep and beat off my girlfriend who was attacking me 996 00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:20,360 Speaker 1: with the samurai sword. Uh. And then it goes into 997 00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,879 Speaker 1: his video game playing habits. Because this is why right 998 00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:27,200 Speaker 1: right level admits he may spend a bit too much 999 00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,560 Speaker 1: time in front of a computer screen, but he insists 1000 00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:33,080 Speaker 1: he never cheated. She apparently thought he was cheating and 1001 00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:36,480 Speaker 1: found said she found some hair in the drain of 1002 00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,680 Speaker 1: their shower. I don't know how the video games come 1003 00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:41,799 Speaker 1: into well, he was saying he spends like twelve to 1004 00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,839 Speaker 1: thirteen hours a day too much. Man, Yeah, he's not 1005 00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:51,839 Speaker 1: paying attention training for a player girls for right, Well, 1006 00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:54,400 Speaker 1: that's what's crazy. So because that, he's like, well, how 1007 00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:56,560 Speaker 1: could I be cheating? I'm literally playing this video game 1008 00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:58,160 Speaker 1: all day, like I can barely see you, let alone 1009 00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:01,040 Speaker 1: another woman. But she found, like, I guess a dating app. 1010 00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,040 Speaker 1: But he's like, I don't use that ship. Okay, I 1011 00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,840 Speaker 1: don't know, you know whatever. The athletes or athletes can 1012 00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:08,279 Speaker 1: also be players too, he said, I wasn't a sweaty nerd, 1013 00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:13,520 Speaker 1: more of an e athlete. Yeah, yeah, that's but the 1014 00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:15,839 Speaker 1: thing was, look, do your thing, man, Like you're gonna 1015 00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:17,760 Speaker 1: play twelve or thirteen hours. I mean, if your girlfriends 1016 00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:19,600 Speaker 1: not down with that, you probably shouldn't be dating anyway. 1017 00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,800 Speaker 1: But like, what's crazy is that she had basically like 1018 00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:26,480 Speaker 1: prepared for this, because they said when they talk about 1019 00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,919 Speaker 1: the night when she attacked him, he came home late, 1020 00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:32,280 Speaker 1: ignored her, uh, and she went to the couple's bedroom, 1021 00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:35,080 Speaker 1: where she had taped the samurai sword and two knives 1022 00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:38,680 Speaker 1: to her side of the bed, so a little premeditated, 1023 00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:41,160 Speaker 1: like the end of die Hard Ship where she has 1024 00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:46,880 Speaker 1: it like I think everybody in that house is playing 1025 00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:48,960 Speaker 1: too much video games because she's like, I'm gonna shinobi 1026 00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:52,800 Speaker 1: this mother samurai sword I have like like fucking you know, 1027 00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:56,360 Speaker 1: taped to the my side of the bed. But anyway, Yeah, 1028 00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,440 Speaker 1: he woke up to her, you know, attacking him, and 1029 00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:01,360 Speaker 1: she was saying, He's like, I was able to wing 1030 00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:04,080 Speaker 1: chun my way to survival. He said he drew on 1031 00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:07,760 Speaker 1: a lifetime of kung fu films and martial arts training. Jesus, bro, 1032 00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:10,680 Speaker 1: you almost died, right. It's really weird. It's like he 1033 00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:14,360 Speaker 1: has this whole like Internet vibe to him, like that 1034 00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,400 Speaker 1: he just can't break out of. Maybe he didn't take it. 1035 00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:20,680 Speaker 1: I don't know, Like who's sleep with this guy? I 1036 00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,640 Speaker 1: mean he he looks dope. He looks like Shyla buff 1037 00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:27,080 Speaker 1: and post malone mixed together. Oh yeah, yeah, he's like 1038 00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:30,280 Speaker 1: smiling in his wheelchair like bandaged up. I mean, he 1039 00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:32,600 Speaker 1: could be so jokey Internet that he doesn't even know 1040 00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:34,600 Speaker 1: how to properly make sense of an attempt on his 1041 00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:38,080 Speaker 1: own life without being like, yeah, bro, Wing chung out 1042 00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:40,960 Speaker 1: of that one. What do you mean you almost lost 1043 00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:45,960 Speaker 1: all your fingers? Yeah, but man fucking owned it. So 1044 00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:54,160 Speaker 1: all right. That's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeit. Guys, 1045 00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:58,080 Speaker 1: please like and review the show. If you like the show, 1046 00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:03,120 Speaker 1: h means the world to Miles. He needs your validation. Folks. 1047 00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,800 Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend and I will 1048 00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:52,960 Speaker 1: talk to you Monday. By